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The article LGBTQ centre plans grand opening, after $30K from city, landlord help (Nov. 27) raises my ire. This is another example of special interest running the city.
If QX non-profit, couldn’t raise the money themselves, there clearly is not enough need. And even though they couldn’t raise the money, they have chosen to provide services for free. This is nothing short of a private club with membership criteria. This dream should be financed by them, not by taxpayers.
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I’m sure it never occurred to QX that straight people might like to lay out the criteria and location for a private centre paid for by others, that they too could access for free.
As I see it, the LGBTQ community have fought for acceptance and now wants to segregate at other people’s expense.
Sandra Barker, London
Cuts harmful
The federal government has cut the number of international students allowed to come to Canada.
Students from abroad, who pay full tuition fees, help fund universities and colleges so our Canadian students can attend school.
The Ontario government has the worst record in Canada for funding our post-secondary education.
Administrators in our post secondary schools are being asked to clap with both hands tied behind their back.
Do they close campuses, like Seneca College did, or do they cut staff or enlarge class sizes and cut programing as Sheridan had to do?
You can contact your provincial member of the Ontario legislature to express your views.
Len Lesser, Dorchester
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Not everyone drives
In his letter, Ask voters (Nov. 29) Walt Lonc suggests putting the creation of bike lanes to Londoners as a referendum.
I don’t think many people would argue with his claim that driving is the most convenient option. Mind you, this is exactly the narrow view that has led us to our current situation.
Free Press readers routinely see letters to the editor complaining of congestion, construction, aggressive driving, cost of gas, collisions and fatalities. The reality is that in a growing city some trips are better by bike.
While 73.5 per cent of Londoners rely on personal vehicles for transportation, more than 100,000 do not, or cannot drive. Are you sure we can’t leave them a small slice of the transportation budget? Or is it a car or nothing?
Andrew McClenaghan, London
Why grovel?
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with U.S. president-elect Donald Trump and his cabinet nominees regarding Trump’s threatened 25 per cent tariff on Canadian goods
It blows my mind how people still grovel at the feet of someone whose broken every rule of common decency. Trump gets the undying support of his base while revered by many Canadians for his environmental, immigration, abortion and jobs policies.
Peter J. Middlemore Sr., Windsor
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